Kentucky and Oregon primary results: track the votes, county by county. Oregon Democratic and Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday, May 17, to pick their presidential nominees and more. Democrats also vote in Kentucky. This post will be updated throughout the day with news, analysis, exit polls and results. Update (May 17, 8 p.m. PT): First Oregon vote totals. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won Oregon's primary Tuesday night after fended off a late charge by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Sanders locked up the win by establishing insurmountable leads in Democratic strongholds including Multnomah and Lane counties. The win restored some needed momentum to Sanders' campaign, while offsetting an apparent Clinton win earlier in the night in Kentucky's Democratic primary.
The 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses are a series of ongoing electoral contests taking place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories, occurring between February 1 and June 14, 2016. Sanctioned by the Democratic Party, these elections are designed to select the 4,051 delegates to send to the Democratic National Convention, which will select the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in
The 2016 Kentucky Democratic primary is scheduled to be held on May 17 in the U.S. state of Kentucky as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, the Democratic Party will hold their Oregon primary, as will the Republican Party, which already held their Kentucky caucuses in early March. The 2016 Oregon Democratic primary is scheduled to be held on May 17 in the U.S. state of Oregon as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, the Democratic Party will hold their Kentucky primary, while the Republican Party will only hold their own Oregon primary on that day.
